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Win XP tries to perform a check disk on boot on my FAT32 partition when I write something inLinux to that partition before the boot. If I forget to stop Win XP, it deletes the data I wrote, thinking it is corruption. How do you stop this?
Thanks so much!

QUOTE FROM OTHER FORUM: "poppy, you can exclude drive letters forim being checked on boot - it's a key in registry but you can achieve it easily with chkntfs command and /x option for exclude from checking. For more info type chkntfs /?"
This one worked. Thanks! I guess googling is an art you've gotta learn

it did take me a little while but google should always be your first point of call ( see below!!). you learn to feed it the right keywords to get the right answers. sometimes the order matters too.
glad i could help